Four directions, four elements. Four ways, you discover, that you’ve been hiding from yourself. Blind spots are dead angles in French. Where have you been dead?
To the East, where a field of red flowers should grow to brighten and enliven, there is only barren earth. Nothing can be felt here.
To the South, where lightening should strike and restore balance, numbing grey mist has covered the land. Nothing can be known here.
To the West, where rivers should meet lakes, a dam has been built. Nothing can connect here.
To the North, where a circle of stones should mark territory, there is only gravel scattered by careless visitors. Nothing can be held here.
At the center of it all, you seek the source. The deep well holding the secrets hiding in those four corners. Instead you find a river, wild and strong, currents that can only be felt not seen, the water looks safe from the banks. You follow it upstream, a long walk.
You find its source seven generations’ away from where you stand now. A treacherous climb to the top of a mountain both beautiful and brutal. As you return, you follow its path to you.
You are the end. You are the cliff over which the river will fall and cease to be a river at all.
To the East, where a field of red flowers should grow to brighten and enliven, there is only barren earth. Nothing can be felt here.
To the South, where lightening should strike and restore balance, numbing grey mist has covered the land. Nothing can be known here.
To the West, where rivers should meet lakes, a dam has been built. Nothing can connect here.
To the North, where a circle of stones should mark territory, there is only gravel scattered by careless visitors. Nothing can be held here.
At the center of it all, you seek the source. The deep well holding the secrets hiding in those four corners. Instead you find a river, wild and strong, currents that can only be felt not seen, the water looks safe from the banks. You follow it upstream, a long walk.
You find its source seven generations’ away from where you stand now. A treacherous climb to the top of a mountain both beautiful and brutal. As you return, you follow its path to you.
You are the end. You are the cliff over which the river will fall and cease to be a river at all.
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